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Part of the book: Horace’s Epistles, Wieland and the Reader

Jane V. Curran

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 38

Bithell Series of Dissertations 19

W. S. Maney & Son Ltd for the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic Studies

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Abstract.  The commentary to his Horace translations alone furnishes ample evidence of the breadth of Wieland’s familiarity with the Classical world and of his competence as a philologist. This combination in Wieland of receptivity to, or perhaps even assimilation of, the spirit inhabiting the works of others, and his thorough and dedicated devotion to the Classics, produced in him a talent for presenting ancient figures sympathetically. This talent includes a particular type of expertise in cross referencing, so that he not only sees the Socratic in Horace, but the Horatian in Erasmus, the Rococo potential in Lucian (in the Göttergespräche and Comische Erzählungen), the framework for ‘ein moralisches Gedicht’ in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia, and Democritus as a citizen of Biberach.

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